Cloth-board and sample-holder.



Mmmm. PATBNTBD DBG., 25, "1905.

Y J. H. -ACKROYU CLOTH BOARD AND tSAMPLE HOLDER. APPLICATION HLBD JAN.23. 1904.

Inventor TED srATEs PATENT onirica.

JOHN H. AcKRoYnloF New YORK, N. Y.`

CLOTH'f'BOARD AND SAMPLE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec; 25, 1906.

Application iiledlanuary 23,1904. Serial No. 190,289.

`Cloth-Boards and Sample-Holders, of which.

the following description and claims constitute the specification, which is illustrated by the accompanying sheet' of drawings.

This invention comprises a new means for A supplying a bolt of cloth with an apparatus for receiving and retaining in the interior of the bolt of cloth a separate stri of the same cloth and for permitting one en of that strip to be Vwithdrawn from Within the bolt of cloth just far enough to bring into view a sufficient area of-fthe strip to be cut off and given away as a sample and for permitting this operation of Withdrawaland cutting ofi to be repeated until the entire-@trip of cloth has been K thus disposed of.

Figure 1 of the drawingsis a perspective view of a cloth-board having a central longitudinal rectangular aperture extending therethroiigh. Fig.A 2 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view ot an open sam le-holder, showinga sample strip of clot roperly laced therein. Fig. 4 is a central) longitu 'nal section of the clothboard of Figs. 1 and 2 with the sampleholder of Fig. 3 in` place in the cloth-board. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cloth-board of Figs. l and 2 with the sample-holder of Fig. 3 and its sample-stri 'withdrawn from the cloth-board far enoug to permit a sarnple 'to be severed from the outer end of the sample-strip. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modified sample-holder with a sample-strip therein. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the sample-- longitudinal strips being parallel to each other and having the longitudinal rectangular aperture C between them, and therefore extending through the body of the clothboard lengthwise. The cloth-board may be made of pasteboard or stiff paper-board of sufficient thickness to give the necessary strength, or it may be made of wood or other suitable material, and the four parts which compose the cloth-board may be fastened together by glue, nails, or rivets, and preferably by both glue and nails.- The aperture C may be about one-third the width of the clothboard, or about two and one-half inches wide, and it may be from one-eighth to three-sixteenths of an inch in height or depth, and it may extend entirely through the cloth-board lengthwise.

The sample-holder D of Figs. 3, 4, and 5 consists of a piece of liexible cardboard or other suitable material having'the body L and the side flap M and the end ilap O, and which flap M is joined to the body L by the hinge-like joint E, Vand which ilap O results from the slit H, and which body 1s provided with two lateral slots F F, having the integral lateral bar G between them, and which flap O has the tab J protruding from the cloth-board when the sample-holder is in place in the cloth-board to serve as a means of withdrawal of the sample-holder, with its samplestrp, partly out of the cloth-board, as shown in 4ig. 5.

The sample-holder of Figs. 6 and 7 differs from the sample-holder of Figs. 3, 4, and 5 only in having an additional and shorter inner ap N, which is turned over upon its longitudinal hinge-like joint and is folded down upon the sam le-strip K before the fia M of the sam le-ho der, and thus between't e flap M and t ie sample-strip K.

The sample-strip K is a strip of equal Y width throughout, made by cutting a strip from the outer end 'of the cloth wound or folded around the cloth-board and entirely across that cloth in the direction of its width. The sample-strip K is attached to the sarnple-holder by passing one of its ends downward through one of the Islots F and then up- Ward through the other slot F, and then drawing the sample-strip through both slots about half-way of its length, and then laying those ortions'of the sample-strip which extend oth Ways from the bar G down upon the body L of the sample-holder. Thereupon the single flap of the sample-holder or the two flaps of the sample-holder, as the case may be, are folded down upon the sainple-strip, and the sample-holder thus provided with the sample-strip is thrust into the aperture C in the cloth-board with only the tab J projecting therefrom, as shown in The folds of the holder have a tendency t'o spring apart and exert a binding pressure IIO ' having one end open and heid in a closed pol Signed at New York, inthe county New ston by insertion in said aperture whereby York and State of NewsT York, this 22d day of a. sample strip of cloth contained in said Il January, A. D. 1904.V i

sample-holder is ada ted to be Withdrawn l JOHN H. ACKROYD. 5 therefrom through t e open end thereof Witnesses: y.

While the sample-holder is held in a closed J. R. FRITH, Jr.,

v position in the aperture.

HOWARD FLoRANoE. 

